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Map update!
Thanks to Berlin-based Stephan Oswald, we have recently added 14 additional churches to our Oswald map. Excitingly, these churches are in 6 new countries, demonstrating Oswald’s reach extended beyond Europe, becoming established in countries that were part of the British Commonwealth, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and Pakistan! View the…
New project book out Open Access!
We are delighted to share the news that Liturgy, Literature, and History. Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages has been published by the British Academy. The book, which uses Oswald of Northumbria as a case study to understand the dynamics of saintly cults in the Middle Ages, is edited…
New short YouTube film in the “Glimpses of German History” series!
Glimpses of German History is a series of short films made by the German History Society, which uses objects to shed light on German history. In this short film, Dr Johanna Dale discusses the reliquary of St Oswald from Hildesheim Cathedral. This unique reliquary claims to contain Oswald’s head (spoiler: it almost certainly does not!)…
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